Rosetta Stone Homeschool features a foreign language curriculum
specially designed to provide homeschool students with a rich, fully
interactive and engaging language-learning experience, while giving
parents the tools and resources needed to manage student progress
without extensive planning or supervision.

Rosetta Stone Homeschool is self-paced and designed to make it easy
for parents to offer language learning even if they don't understand
the language their students are studying. Students are instantly
captivated by Rosetta Stone so they stay engaged. Plus, with positive
reinforcement and quick results, their language-learning confidence
soars!

Audio Companion™ CDs

Included in this set are the Rosetta Stone Audio Companion™ mp3 files on CD! After your students complete a computer lesson using Rosetta Stone, they can reinforce the skills they've learned by using Audio Companion on an mp3 player, or burn the files onto CDs in a format that will play on a conventional audio CD player.

A solid foundation for fluency

Rosetta Stone provides up to three levels of instruction, beginning
with a foundation of listening comprehension, speaking, reading and
writing. With Rosetta Stone, your children will do more than learn
about a language. They'll learn to use it.

Level 3 helps you to connect with the world around you by building on the language fundamentals and conversational skills you developed in Levels 1 and 2. Level 3 provides instruction in such categories as:

In Levels 4 and 5 you will engage in debates, speak about social and economic issues, and express your opinions and ideas fully in French. Plus, administrative tools provide parents with the necessary resources to plan lessons as well as monitor and report on student progress.

Rosetta Stone Homeschool Edition
From the time I was six, I have loved learning foreign languages. I began with four years of Spanish while in Panama, progressed to French while in Michigan, then took more Spanish in California. My high school years in Iran allowed me to study both Farsi and German. Finally, college in Oregon included a year of Russian. Sad to say, but old age has taken its toll and much of what I learned has vanished from my memory. Yet I will always remember with fondness the thrill of mastering a mysterious language. Therefore it is only natural for me to want to share that excitement with our children, and towards that end I am continually evaluating foreign language programs. In my opinion, the all-new Rosetta Stone is the best program available for older children, ages ten and up, particularly those who live in a state that requires proof of foreign language mastery for high-school graduation.

Current Version Makes the Best Even Better!
Completely re-written, fresh content has been added to this program and the types of activities have changed. A new administrative tool includes lesson plans made specifically for the homeschool student that parents can select based on their family's learning objectives. A PDF version of course content is provided describing each lesson in the program.

Children Learn a Foreign Language the Natural Way
Currently in use in more than 7,000 schools and fifty-five countries, Rosetta Stone's computerized foreign language program utilizes photos and pictures that portray real world situations. By matching the spoken phrase and image correctly, children learn a foreign language the natural way, by associating sounds, and later written words, with objects and ideas. None of the other dreary methods typically associated with learning a new language are here.

Rosetta Stone is a first-class program, outstanding in many ways. But every program has its warts and Rosetta Stone is no exception. Because the program is based on real-life photos, you should expect to see photos of people in various manners of dress, participating in all types of activities. Honestly, most children are exposed to more flesh in a simple trip to the grocery store, and the lively pace of the program does not encourage lingering over these types of pictures. There is nothing vulgar here, but if you blanche at the sight of a child in shorts or a woman wearing a sleeveless dress, you should be aware of this potential concern.

Homeschool Version Comes with Lots of Extras!
The first level of Rosetta Stone will probably take up to one year to complete, though some children could proceed more quickly, with some lesson plans requiring less review and fewer exercises. There is a difference between the ordinary Rosetta Stone Personal and the homeschool version. In addition to what is included in the regular Rosetta Stone, the homeschool version includes a parent’s guide that provides explanations of lesson plans, suggested cultural activities, and more; twelve pre-loaded lesson plans, including a full-year curriculum path; and an administrative tool that allows you to plan and track your child’s progress and track multiple children individually on the same computer. Rosetta Stone Version 3 Homeschool Edition is available in up to five levels and in seventeen languages. Rosetta Stone now comes bundled with a free headset and an audio companion!

Parent Administrative Tools
Parent Administrative Tools let you track your student's progress with just a few mouse clicks. You'll see which exercises they have completed, assess how well they've done and determine how long it took them to finish. You will also be able to select predefined lesson plans and generate progress reports, documenting student achievement for college and job applications.

TestingWith Rosetta Stone® Homeschool, students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.

As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student's score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.

One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.

Dynamic ImmersionRosetta Stone® uses Dynamic Immersion® to reconnect students with the language skills they used successfully to master their first language.

Learn a foreign language in contextRosetta Stone uses rich visual imagery to help students learn and think in a new language. This association of language with images is an integral part of our Dynamic Immersion® method. Students learn in context and make a direct connection between words and their meanings.

Building on the knowledge you've already gained and your intuitive grasp of the meaning of each picture, you make a choice. There's absolutely no translation or memorization to hold you back, so you start making progress immediately.

Immediate reinforcement
The very second you complete a task, Rosetta Stone provides feedback. Speak a word and our unique speech recognition technology automatically rates your pronunciation. Connect an image with a phrase and you'll immediately learn if your choice was correct. Complete a set of exercises and you'll instantly know how well you did. With Rosetta Stone, you always know where you stand.

Rosetta Stone's clear, intuitive interface uses thousands of real-life images to teach the meaning of new words and phrases. By matching words and images, students link language and meaning and receive immediate feedback. From the very beginning, Rosetta Stone systematically builds nouns and verbs into complete sentences and dialogues. Along the way students develop everyday proficiency in each of the four key language skills: listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing.

We bought Rosetta Stone Spanish, thinking to use it with all three or our older children. My younger daughter, however, really wanted to learn French instead. So we bought an inexpensive "look alike" curriculum claiming to have the same content as Rosetta Stone, which was a totally false claim. After plodding through Level 1 and learning almost nothing, we bit the bullet and bought Rosetta Stone. Our daughter says rosetta Stone is much better, for the following reasons. The other program allows you to work on things in a random order, which gives a false sense of making progress, while RS plans the lessons in an orderly manner. The other program uses some English and the corresponding French, but no written words, so you can't see the written French. Rosetta Stone uses no English, but shows you the word in French, which is a huge help in pronunciation. Rosetta Stone also charts progress and gives grades, which the other program did not. Besides which, it is just better produced and less frustrating, which means French is an enjoyable subject and not a chore. Rosetta Stone costs much more, but you definitely get what you pay for. Highly recommended.

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Great for learning 2 languages at a time

October 3, 2011

Reviewer:
Jennifer D. from Colorado

I purchased level I (both Spanish and French) for my first grader and 4th grader. I think I was a bit crazy for wanting to try 2 languages but it has been a great success so far. We tend to travel quite a bit so we feel it a necesary skill. In the box you get a great set of headphones and a cd for worksheets and an audio cd for in your car. The homeschool edition keeps track of grades and progress and it requires a good score before it will check off an assigment as complete. However, you can still move forward if you don't redo that section. My 4th grader has no trouble from the beginning of each core section. My 1st grader struggles a bit at the beginning but by the end is at the same level as his brother. An added bonus since we are using 2 languages is that it covers the exact same material in each course making learning both a lot easier!

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French Rosetta Stone

September 27, 2011

Reviewer:
Christie Lyons from Clinton, IL United States

We finally took the plunge and bought the French Rosetta Stone for our high-school student. She was so eager to get started, and has spent many hours learning her new language. The program was so engaging that four of our other children begged to be allowed to "learn French" too. Not only do the children enjoy the program itself, but they have started using French words and phrases in every-day life. Now I want to purchase a few other languages just for the fun of it. Who knew learning languages could be so fun???

Side notes: 1. You might like a different headset than the one provided.2. We have found it essential to our success to adjust the preferences to "easy" for the speaking parts. The computer is very picky and it needs to be on the easiest setting for the children to be "understood". :-)

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Very useful software

June 7, 2011

Reviewer:
Anonymous Person from Alameda, CA United States

We used this software as a supplement to a French class at a local community college. It is a great vocabulary builder. The presentation is pretty, and it's enjoyable to use. The software gives feedback on pronunciation. Speakers within the software are native speakers. Rosetta Stone was an invaluable tool, and it would have been useful even without the community college class.

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Well worth the price

February 19, 2009

Reviewer:
Jamie from Edmond, OK

I hesitated and thought over this purchase for several years. After viewing the demo and thinking about it some more, I finally took the plunge. I can now say that this product is well worth the price. For user-friendliness it just can't be beat. The teaching method is wonderful and very effective. Grading is easy as the program tracks progress automatically for teacher review. We are very pleased with this product. Get the free demo and check it out. Although it could be used earlier, we use Rosetta Stone to fulfill high school foreign language requirements.